INTERNATIONAL BRIEFS; Hyundai Halts Chip Production

The Hyundai Electronics Company temporarily stopped making computer memory chips yesterday to help ease a global supply glut and shore up falling chip prices. The move by Hyundai, South Korea's No. 2 chip maker, was expected to be followed by the Samsung Electronics Company, the country's largest chip maker, and LG Semicon, the third largest. The three South Korean companies supply 40 percent of the world's dynamic random access memory, or D-RAM, chips.

Hyundai said its plant outside Seoul would remain idle until Tuesday. The company normally produces 19 million 16-megabit D-RAM chips and 8 million 64-megabit D-RAM chips a month.